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Take Joni Evans, publisher of adult trade books at Random House. Two years ago, when she worked in a top editing job at rival Simon & Schuster, Evans was so determined to keep author Mario Puzo in her literary camp that she offered him a $3 million advance for his next book, sight unseen. A competitor outbid her by $1 million, so she matched the offer. "When I have to have it, I have to have it," she explains. The Godfather author, who jumped to Random House when Evans moved there in late 1987, is expected to deliver his pricey manuscript...
...cover and soft-cover rights to James Clavell's Whirlwind. That record-breaking sum has since been equaled or topped repeatedly. Horror writer Stephen King was reportedly promised between $30 million and $40 million for his next four thrillers, to be published by Viking Penguin and New American Library. Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books shelled out $10.1 million for the next five novels from suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark. Warner Books paid Southern historical novelist Alexandra Ripley $4.9 million for the unwritten sequel to Gone With the Wind. (Margaret Mitchell's advance was all of $500 for writing the original...
...freshperson dorm and a popular tour guide for the Crimson Key Society--adjusted well to the social and political life of the University, attending basketball and hockey games and joining in the anti-war protests of the day. "I can remember her playing a lot of Carly Simon," her former roommate adds...
...explain that the housing is Spartan," said Tonia H. Simon '91, co-coordinator of the 50th reunion, "but sometimes they don't realize that Spartan isn't just without track lighting...
...Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Melinda J. McAdams, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Judy Sandra, Elyse Segelken, Michael Skinner, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...